On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 03:30:34PM +0100, David Howells wrote: > Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) <mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I've been looking at the new mount API (fsopen(), fsconfig(), > > fsmount(), move_mount(), etc.) and among the details that remain > > mysterious to me is this: how does one set the propagation type > > (private/shared/slave/unbindable) of a new mount and change the > > propagation type of an existing mount? > > Christian said he was going to have a go at writing mount_setattr(). It's not > trivial as it has to be able to handle AT_RECURSIVE. Right, I've put this on my roadmap now. It's becoming more urgent for us too since I've already switched over a few bits to the new mount api to make use of detached/anonymous mounts. I've planned to start working on a version early next week. Christian
